Clara leads the AI Compliance group within the ICO’s Technology Department, which provides AI technical and policy expertise to the ICO’s stakeholder engagement and supervision activities. In addition, Clara’s recent work at the ICO includes leading the generative AI call for evidence series, co-producing guidance on privacy enhancing technologies and on anonymisation and leading on the G7 DPAs' Emerging Technologies Working Group case study on synthetic data.

Prior to joining the ICO, Clara worked as a data protection solicitor at an international law firm. She has also spent time as a secondee in the ICO's Policy Legal team and as the European legal counsel at a large pharmaceutical company. She is the co-author of Data Protection in the Pharmaceutical Sector, part of the Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law (Kluwer Law, 2023).